Dr. Seuss

This week we completed our look at Dr. Seuss. I have had requests to continue our look at Dr. Seuss next week by the children and will incorporate The Shape of Me and Other Stuff into our Valentine/ Heart week. We started this week with Fox in Socks. We looked at other tongue twisters and limericks, including "The Limerick Song," Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers," and "How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck." We also played games with socks and placed the socks on our hands and feet for a sensory experience.The sock game is from Melissa Childers at TpT.

We had a "tweetle beetle battle" and painted with edible "blue goo." 

We used our cardboard blocks to build as inspired by the book.

We also sorted insects with our math manipulatives.

For the book, Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! 
we painted with feathers, worked with puzzles with words from our books and explored our ABC's. The letter matching activity is from this link.

 

For One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, we found fish in the sensory table and had fish shapes to use with the light table. 

We also used the number match fish from this site with our ice fishing game. We completed a charting exercise from this link as well.

 We made footprints in play dough to measure with cubes and paper clips as we charted the different sizes for The Foot Book.

We also enjoyed a texture path with giant bubble wrap at the end to pop.

We painted with our feet as inspired by Teach Preschool and ended with footprint designs.

We had a green breakfast for our final book, Green Eggs and Ham.

We also painted with three different shades of green at the easel and made green "explosions" with green vinegar in baking soda.

Some of the sensory and small motor development that is included weekly includes our instruments and the containers for our light table activities. The use of these items assist in developing those small muscles that are used for writing. 

We also had a DQ treat at the end of the week as our local DQ opened for the season.

We had a great time with Dr. Seuss and the children didn't want the week to end. Here are some of the other items built this week in the block area.

Next week, we will take a look at Valentine's, hearts and friendship. Until then, enjoy a video of one of our favorite circle time songs.

Dr. Seuss and "Groundhog Gets a Say"

We began our look at Dr. Seuss with The Cat in The Hat and Batholomew and the Oobleck. Here is the version of The Cat in the Hat we used this week.

We decided that the fish had safety in mind and came up with our own safe tips with the fish. Some of the ideas shared were staying close to mom at the store or fair, don't let strangers in the house and don't play guns at school. Our fish had plenty of wisdom to share with us.

We made hats from the story with a printable from Kristyn Fedich at TpT.

We used the pattern to make our "Cat in the Hat" AB patterned pizza and enjoyed a red smoothie with Greek yogurt, bananas, pineapple tidbits, flax seed, food coloring and honey.

 We also made "Thing 1 and Thing 2" from this link and here.

Our light table activity included a worksheet from this link.

 We also measured Dr. Seuss characters from BugandMonkey at TpT.

Here is a glimpse of our number and letter activities. The salt trays were inspired by Teach Preschool.

 Pinto beans and navy beans in our sensory table provided hours of fun this week. I also added paper towel tubes that are not pictured for an extension activity.

For our exploration of Oobleck and green substances, we made Oobleck to send home with a note from this link and painted with shaving cream and green food coloring.

We also took time to read Groundhog Gets a Say by Pamela Curtis Swallow and spent some time on the National Geographic site looking at authentic photos of groundhogs. I also found an authentic shadow experience from this link. Please take the time to read about her view in staying away from the "groundhog in the cup" and providing real experiences for children. We enjoyed guessing what the toy being held up was.

 We also traced our profile shadow and colored a face on large paper.

We will extend this lesson by charting the actual beginning of Spring and comparing the date to the prediction of a shorter winter. Next week, we will continue our look at Dr. Seuss.

We work with the calendar on a daily basis and count in English/ Spanish, sing about the days of the week and explore the Spanish term for each as well as sing the months of the year in English and Spanish. Here is a video to share with your children. You may be surprised by how many names they know already!